One addition to our site redesign has been the addition of an account on scribd.com to host and embed our documents.  This comes with some wonderful additions and some unfortunate subtractions and we wanted to take a moment to detail all of these and more in a post about how to use the new scribd iPaper player.

When viewing one of our embedded documents you are presented with the controls shown above, providing of course that you have flash available, these controls can be a tad overwhelming at first glance so heres your crash course into how to use them all, moving from left to right here we go.

• Open link @ scribd.com – This option does exactly what it says, it will open the embedded documents directly at scribd.com instead of at the district web site.
• Access More Options – Gives you access to many options, including printing, saving, sending and embedding the documents, all of which we encourage you to do.  NOTE: saving unfortunately requires an account on scribd and we apologize for this, if you need to save a document we encourage you to contact us instead.
• Magnify Controls – Allows you to zoom in/out  on the current page of the document.
• Page Control - Allows you to flip between pages if the document spans multiple pages.
• Tile Mode – Lays out each page of the document in a miniature form provided the document spans multiple pages.
• Text Selector – Used to highlight text for various reasons
• Search doc – Allows you to search the document currently being displayed
• Fill Screen – Allows the document to be maximized in the window (doesn’t always work)

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